St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Richmond)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church is an Episcopalian church located on 520 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded in 1866 in the Jackson Ward, and, in 1921, the current church was built, and the first service was held on 22 March 1922. Its parishioners were mostly working-class people, and, during the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, it became the first integrated Episcopal church in the city; during the 1980s, it embraced the cause of AIDS ministry.